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πορθμίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πορθμίς πορθμίδος

Structure: πορθμιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = porqmei=on II

Sense

  1. a ship, boat

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Αἴδεω λυπηρὲ διήκονε, τοῦτ’ Ἀχέροντοσ ὕδωρ ὃσ πλώεισ πορθμίδι κυανέῃ, δέξαι μ’, εἰ καί σοι μέγα βρίθεται ὀκρυόεσσα βᾶρισ ἀποφθιμένων, τὸν κύνα Διογένην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 671)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἄν ποτε οὐδὲ νηὶ παρισουμένασ πορθμίδι παράσχοιτο ὁ Λάδων νήσουσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 25 18:1)

Synonyms

  1. a ship

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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